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Legendary Swedish Black Metal group DOMGÅRD are set to release their highly anticipated third album Ödelagt on Carnal Records. Five long years since the release of sophomore album Myrkviðr, the Gothenburg band has returned with 12 tracks of fierce Black Metal in the finest Swedish tradition with a thematic focus on the dark and enlightening aspects of Germanic mythology, magic and custom.

DOMGÅRD was founded in 1997 by Vindkall, Orm & Trollheim. The following years Ulv joined as a drummer and Illbrand as a vocalist. Some unofficial rehearsal demos were recorded. In 2000 three of four members were imprisoned for several years. Four years later Vindkall and Ulv recorded the demo Blodskald before Vindkall continued on his own until 2008 when the drummer Hrimner and the bass player Hraegelmir (Panphage) joined. In 2009 DOMGÅRD recorded five tracks for a split with Cursed 13 which was released on the winter solstice the same year. The following year Heljarmadr (Cursed 13, Grá, Dark Funeral) joined the trio and contributed on two fullength albums, I Nifelhels Skygd (2010) and Myrkviðr (2012). Askr joined as the new bass player in 2013 and Mardröm as a second guitarist in 2014.

Out now! Patronymicon - All Daggers Towards the Sky LP. ltd. 300. Includes a cover of Bathory´s "Reaper"

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SVARTSYN Nightmarish Sleep vinyl released today

This 12” MLP is ltd. to 300 copies and the first 100 is purple/oxblood red splatter

T-shirt and hood will be released soon.

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OFFICIAL RELEASE TODAY!!!WAN "Dig up the past" Gatefold DLP containing both WAN albums ("Wolves of the north" re-recorded).Limited to 300 copies, first 100 on white vinyl.Order your copy now. carnalrecords@hotmail.comwww.facebook.com/TheUnholyWAN

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New Release!

WAN - "Dig up the past"Wan´s Enjoy the Filth AND Wolves of the North on the same album.Over 25 blasphemous tracks from hell.This DLP will be released October 2nd and are now up for pre order.Wolves of the north is re-recorded for this vinyl.Just real old school black metal terror!!!Limited to 300 copies. First on 100 white vinyl.

Omnizide - Nekromantik4 brand new tracks from Omnizide.This 10” EP will be released august 14th and are up for pre order now.Tracks: Nekromantik, Lurking Death, Bloodsoaked, Ritual Penetration.Limited to 300 hand numbered copies. First 100 red/black haze vinyl.

TOMHET was found by the guitarist, song/lyrikcarver and vocalist Kumulonimbus in Gesunda, Sweden (late) 1999/2000. He, among his first drummer K.K. in the year 2001/2002 produced the two early demo tapes “Tomhet” and “Strid”. Soon after the release of “Strid” K.K. leaved the band. Things went slow alone so Kumulonimbus recorded the demo tape “Brandbann´R” himself. Shortly after the demo was recorded, a label promised a deal to release an album and then John Torch was invited to handle the drums. So when the "Eklipsens hord och karavan" album was recorded (april 2004) and the layout etc was done and ready to be released the deal failed due to many strange reasons and the contract dispursed. Later in 2006 Kumulonimbus met the present drummer Spitælsker. Spitælsker and Kumulonimbus started to rehearse a lot and recorded the demo “Purpureargotamiceps” and the demo “Apokalypsimz Legend”. Both“Purpureargotamiceps” and“Apokalypsimz Legend” was self-released on tape in 2009.

“Nightmarish Sleep”, which was mastered by the Clintworks Studio in Hamburg, Germany, and includes artwork by the illustrator Chadwick St John of Inkshadows, will be available in both CD and digital formats. Track listing for “Nightmarish Sleep” as follows:

Formed in 1991 by Ornias the band was originally named CHALICE, changing its name to SVARTSYN in 1993. With Draugen (ex-DARK FUNERAL) joining the lineup in 1996, SVARTSYN signed to Folter Records, for the release their debut full-length album “The True Legend”, the first of a total of eight full-length albums, the latest being 2013’s “Black Testament” on Agonia Records. SVARTSYN quickly became a cult band on the Swedish Black Metal scene, playing traditional dark, grim Black Metal in a style that is fast, brutal, sinister and misanthropic.

Ornias does not mince his words when it comes to talking about his music in general and “Nightmarish Sleep” in particular, of which he says: “If you like your production to sound nice and clean you’d better stay the fuck away. This is very dark, dirty and violent. This is the result, at least in part, of a search for answers as to why I’m still here. There is a reason why I still exist. …a nightmarish deep that takes you beyond the Black testament. These are the offerings and the hymns to the Dark Gods. This IS the nightmarish sleep”.

The OMNIZIDE LP have been delivered today and all pre orders will be sent out this weekend.

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With a release date set for the 5th of December, Sweden’s Carnal Records have today revealed details of the upcoming album from Scandinavian Occult Black Metallers GRAFVITNIR. The seven track album, entitled “Semen Serpentis”, will be the band’s sophomore full-length release and a follow up to 2012′s “NâHásh“. GRAFVITNIR themselves have chosen the 22nd November to debut the track “Where Time Has Ceased To Be” from “Semen Serpentis”, because that is when the Moon is black in Scorpio. “Where Time Has Ceased To Be” can be heard above and at https://soundcloud.com/carnalrecords/where-time-has-ceased-to-be

“Semen Serpentis” deals with the subject of the Serpentine bloodline, and artwork and photography for the album are by Occultum. Track listing as follows:

1. Where Time has Ceased to Be 2. Descendants of the Serpent 3. Av Ormens Blod 4. Sword of the Damned 5. Poisonous Streams of Hraunn 6. Seed of Apep 7. Vilddjurets Återkomst

GRAFVITNIR was formed in the dark forests of Sweden in 2007 to perform Scandinavian Occult Black Metal and act as a herald for the Chaosophical Tradition of dark, forbidden fruits. With a lineup that describes itself as The Faceless Emanations Of Primordial Chaos and comprises Niantiel, Tishin and Modrius, it is not surprising that its members are all practitioners, adepts and occultists of the Luciferian Tradition. Drawing its inspiration from Occultism, GRAFVITNIR ‘s lyrics explore the subjects of Numerology, Astrology, Witchcraft, Transcendence and Luciferianism.

Carnal Records have set the 8th of August as the date for the release of a limited edition splatter vinyl of “Längtan” , the third full-length album from Sweden’s VANHELGA.Strictly limited to 300 copies, the vinyl edition of “Längtan” features artwork by the Spanish artist Juanjo Castellano on the gatefold cover, whilst the thirteen-track disc itself comes in blue splatter and includes the bonus Burzum cover track ” Black Spell of Destruction”.

Formed in Linköping, Sweden, in 2001, and most frequently described as a DSBM band, it is not easy to pin down the exact genre in which to fit VANHELGA’s music. The band’s name itself means “Profane”, and its musicians have found the perfect vehicle through which to express the dark and disturbing emotions that inhabit their, often twisted, minds. The lineup of founder J. Ottosson, aka 145188 (ex-LIFELOVER (live session musician), ex-SKOGSTRON) on Bass, Guitars and Vocals, J. Gabrielson (ESKAPI, ex-LIVELOVER) on Vocals, J. Ejnarsson (TAKETH) and Wadström (ex-SKOGSTRON) on guitars and D. Franzén on drums, create a sound that whilst being as cold and sinister as their collective backgrounds and psyches would suggest, also has moments of melancholy, which led one reviewer to say of “Längtan” “It’s not often that you can describe a black metal release as beautiful, but that’s exactly what Längtan, the latest offering from Sweden’s Vanhelga is.” The digipack edition of “Längtan” was released on Art of Propagnda earlier this year.

In October VANHELGA will be performing a series of shows in Germany alongside HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY and AGRYPNIE. Routing as follows:

The official video for the track ” Där Evigheten Inväntar Mig “, from VANHELGA’s 2014 full-length album ” Längtan “, can be seen below and at http://youtu.be/N1fiCNTUi3I

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Cursed 13 – Triumf gatefold LP

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Pre-orders are taken now!

SEK150 EUR17,50 + postage

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Grafvitnir (Sweden) signs for Carnal records for a full length album to be released 2014.

Grafvitnir is a Luciferian Black Metal constellation from the dark woods of Sweden. The band was formed in 2007 and consists of active practitioners, adepts and occultists within the Luciferian tradition.

The main purpose of the band is to act as heralds for the Chaosophical tradition of dark, forbidden truths.